It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
